Genesis 2 Cross References - ISV

¹ The Seventh DayWith this the heavens and the earth were completed, including all of their vast array. ² By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done. ³ Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.
⁴ Humans in the GardenThese are the records of the universe at its creation. On the day that the LORD God made the earth and skies, ⁵ no shrubs had yet grown in the meadows of the earth and no vegetation had sprouted, because the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there were no human beings to work the ground. ⁶ Instead, an underground stream would arise out of the earth and water the surface of the ground. ⁷ So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.
⁸ The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, where he placed the man whom he had formed. ⁹ The LORD God caused every tree that is both beautiful and suitable for food to spring up out of the ground. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰ A river flows from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides, becoming four branches. ¹¹ The name of the first one is Pishon—it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. ¹² The gold of that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also found there. ¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon— it winds through the entire land of Cush. ¹⁴ The third river is named the Tigris— it flows to the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
¹⁵ The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden in order to have him work it and guard it. ¹⁶ The LORD God commanded the man: “You may freely eat from every tree of the garden, ¹⁷ but you are not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because you will certainly die during the day that you eat from it.”
¹⁸ The Creation of the WomanLater, the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him.” ¹⁹ After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds that fly, and to each of earth’s animals, but there was not found a strength corresponding to him, ²¹ so the LORD God caused a deep sleep to overshadow the man.
When the man was asleep, he removed one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh where it had been. ²² Then the LORD God formed the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ So the man exclaimed, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one will be called ‘Woman,’ because she was taken from Man.”
²⁴ (Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.) ²⁵ Even though both the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about it.

¹ The CreationIn the beginning, God created the universe.

¹⁰ God called the dry ground “land,” and he called the water that had come together “oceans.” And God saw how good it was.

⁴ Humans in the GardenThese are the records of the universe at its creation. On the day that the LORD God made the earth and skies,

¹¹ because the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, in six days, then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.ה

¹⁷ It is a sign forever between me and the Israelis, because the LORD made the heavens and the earth in six days, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

¹⁹ Do not gaze toward the heavens and observe the sun, the moon, the stars—the entire array of the sky—with the intent to worship and serve what the LORD your God gave every nation.

³ He may be following and serving other gods by bowing down to them—that is, to the sun, the moon, or to any of the heavenly host (something I did not command).

¹⁵ Then Hezekiah prayed in the presence of the LORD, “LORD God of Israel! You live between the cherubim! You alone are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have fashioned the heavens and the earth.

³ He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal, crafted an Asherah, just as King Ahab of Israel had done, and worshipped and served the stars of heaven. ⁴ He also built altars in the LORD’s Temple, about which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will place my Name.” ⁵ He built two altars to every star in the heavens in the two courts of the LORD’s Temple.

¹² Hiram also wrote: “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth. He gave King David a wise son, who is acquainted with discretion and understanding, and who is building a temple to the LORD, as well as a royal palace for himself.

⁶ “You are the LORD; you alone crafted the heavens, the highest heavens with all of their armies; the earth, and everything in it; the seas, and everything in them; you keep giving all of them life, and the army of heaven continuously worships you.

⁹ Who among all of these doesn’t know that the LORD’s hand made them,

⁶ By the word of the LORD the heavens were made; all the heavenly bodies by the breath of his mouth.

⁹ because he spoke and it came to be, because he commanded, it stood firm.

¹¹ Heaven and the earth belong to you, the world and everything it contains— you established them. ¹² The north and south—you created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name. ¹³ Your arm is strong; your hand is mighty; indeed, your right hand is victorious.

² you are wrapped in light like a garment, stretching out the sky like a curtain.

⁵ to the one who by wisdom made the heavens, for his gracious love is everlasting— ⁶ to the one who spread out the earth over the waters, for his gracious love is everlasting— ⁷ to the one who made the great lights, for his gracious love is everlasting— ⁸ the sun to illumine the day, for his gracious love is everlasting—

⁶ maker of heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them, forever the guardian of truth,

⁴ The valleys will be split, all the stars in the heavens will fall down, and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll. All their starry host will fade away like leaves withering on a vine, or fruit withering on a fig tree.

²⁶ “Lift your eyes up to heaven and see who created all these— the one who leads out their vast array of stars by number, calling them all by name— because of his great might and his powerful strength— and not one is missing.”
²⁷ The LORD Watches Israel“Jacob, why do you say— and Israel, why do you complain— ‘My predicament is hidden from the LORD, and my cause is ignored by my God.’? ²⁸ Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary; and his understanding cannot be fathomed.

⁵ God Speaks about the ServantThis is what God says— the God who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

¹² I myself made the earth and personally created humankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the skies; I marshaled all their starry hosts.”

¹⁸ For this is what the LORD says, who created the heavens— he is God, and the one who formed the earth and made it, and he is the one who established it; he didn’t create it for chaos, but formed it to be inhabited— “I am the LORD and there is no other.

¹³ Moreover, my hands laid the earth’s foundation, and my right hand spread out the heavens. I call out to them, and they stand up together.

⁹ “For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁷ A New UniverseTake notice! I’m about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things won’t be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

² They’ll be spread out to the sun, the moon, and all the stars of the heavens, which they loved and served, and which they followed, consulted, and worshipped. Their bones won’t be collected, nor will they be buried. They’ll be like dung on the surface of the ground.

¹² A Hymn of Praise to GodThe LORD is the one who made the world by his power, who established the earth by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

¹⁶ The Portion of Jacob is not like these. He made everything, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name.

¹ The LORD will Deliver JerusalemA declaration: a message from the LORD to Israel. “The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who frames the spirit of man within himself, declares,

¹³ Suddenly, a multitude of the Heavenly Army appeared with the angel, praising God by saying,

²⁴ When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, “Master, you made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

⁴² So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘O house of Israel, you didn’t offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?

³ We who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, “So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest,” even though his actions had been finished since the creation of the world.

³¹ Now God saw all that he had made, and indeed, it was very good! The twilight and the dawn were the sixth day.

⁸ “Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy. ⁹ You are to labor and do all your work during six days, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You are not to do any work—neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor the alien who is within your gates— ¹¹ because the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, in six days, then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.ה

¹² You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed.

¹⁴ but the seventh day is a Sabbath for the LORD your God. You are not to do any work—neither you, your children, your male and female servants, your oxen and donkeys, nor any of your livestock—as well as any of the foreigners who live among you, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.

¹³ “If you keep your feet from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own ways and seeking your own pleasure or speaking merely idle words,

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working.”

⁴ Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: “On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,”

²² On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, about two omers per person. Then all the leaders of the congregation came and reported to Moses, ²³ and he told them, “This is what the LORD said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil, and put aside whatever remains to be kept for yourselves until morning.’” ²⁴ So they put it away until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not smell bad, and there were no maggots in it. ²⁵ Moses said, “Eat it today, since today is a Sabbath to the LORD, and today you won’t find it in the field. ²⁶ For six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there won’t be any.”
²⁷ Nevertheless, that seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any. ²⁸ Then the LORD asked Moses, “How long will you people refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions? ²⁹ You see that the LORD has given you the Sabbath, and so on the sixth day he gives you food for two days. Let each person stay where he is; let no one leave his place on the seventh day.” ³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day.

¹³ “You are to tell the Israelis: ‘You are to certainly observe my Sabbaths because it’s a sign between me and you from generation to generation, so you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. ¹⁴ You are to observe the Sabbath, because it’s holy for you. Whoever profanes it is certainly to die; indeed, whoever does work on it is to be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵ Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does work on the Sabbath is certainly to die. ¹⁶ The Israelis are to keep the Sabbath to make the Sabbath observance a perpetual covenant from generation to generation. ¹⁷ It is a sign forever between me and the Israelis, because the LORD made the heavens and the earth in six days, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

²¹ “For six days you are to work, but on the seventh day you are to rest; even during plowing time and harvest you are to rest.

² For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest in dedication to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day is to be executed. ³ You are not to light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath.”

³ Six days you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work. It’s a Sabbath to the LORD wherever you live.

² “Tell the Israelis that when you enter the land that I’m about to give you, you are to let the land observe a Sabbath to the LORD. ³ For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.

¹² “‘You are to keep the Sabbath day holy, just as the LORD your God commanded. ¹³ Six days you are to labor and do all your work, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a Sabbath for the LORD your God. You are not to do any work—neither you, your children, your male and female servants, your oxen and donkeys, nor any of your livestock—as well as any of the foreigners who live among you, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.

¹⁴ You revealed to them your holy Sabbath, and you mandated precepts, statutes, and laws through Moses your servant.

¹⁵ Prohibiting Work on the SabbathAt that time I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sacks of grain, loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads. They brought them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I rebuked them on the day on which they were selling food. ¹⁶ Furthermore, Tyrians were living there who were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise, selling them to the people of Judah on the Sabbath, even in Jerusalem.
¹⁷ I rebuked the officials of Judah, saying to them, “What’s this evil thing that you’re doing by profaning the Sabbath day? ¹⁸ Didn’t your ancestors do the same? And didn’t our God bring on us and on this city all of this trouble? Now you’re adding to the wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”
¹⁹ As the Sabbath approached and it began to get dark at the gates of Jerusalem, I gave word to shut the gates, charging that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I stationed some of my men at the gates to ensure that no loads would be brought in on the Sabbath day. ²⁰ As a result, the merchants and sellers of all sorts of goods remained outside Jerusalem a couple of times. ²¹ I argued with them, “Why are you staying outside the wall? If you do this again, I’ll arrest you.” From that time on, they didn’t come anymore on the Sabbath. ²² Then I commanded the descendants of Levi to purify themselves and to come as gate keepers to sanctify the Sabbath day.
Remember me, my God, and show mercy to me according to the greatness of your gracious love.

²² The blessing of the LORD establishes wealth, and difficulty does not accompany it.

² Blessed is the one who does this, and the person that holds it fast, who observes the Sabbath without profaning it, and restrains his hands from practicing any evil. ³ “Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say: ‘The LORD will surely exclude me from his people.’ Furthermore, let no eunuch say, ‘Look! I am just a dry tree.’” ⁴ For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me, and who hold fast my covenant— ⁵ to them I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off. ⁶ “Also, the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, and to bless the LORD’S name, observing the Sabbath without profaning it, and who hold fast my covenant— ⁷ these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices will rise up to be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for everyone.”

¹³ “If you keep your feet from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own ways and seeking your own pleasure or speaking merely idle words, ¹⁴ then you will take delight in the LORD, and he will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; and he will make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob, your father. “Yes! The mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

²¹ This is what the LORD says: “Be careful! On the Sabbath day, don’t carry any load or bring anything through the gates of Jerusalem. ²² Don’t bring any load out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor are you to do any work. You are to consecrate the Sabbath day, just as I commanded your ancestors. ²³ But they didn’t listen, nor did they pay attention. They were determined not to listen and not to accept instruction. ²⁴ If you listen to me carefully,” declares the LORD, “and don’t bring a load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and you consecrate the Sabbath day and don’t do any work on it, ²⁵ then kings and princes, sitting on the throne of David will come through the gates of this city. They, their princes, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem will come riding in chariots and on horses, and this city will be inhabited forever. ²⁶ They’ll come from the cities of Judah, from the places around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense, and bringing thanksgiving offerings to the LORD’s Temple. ²⁷ But if you don’t listen to me, to consecrate the Sabbath day and not carry any load as you enter the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I’ll start a fire in its gates. It will consume the palaces of Jerusalem and won’t be extinguished.”’”

¹² Also, I instituted my Sabbath for them as a sign between me and them, so they would know that I am the LORD, who has set them apart.”

²⁷ Then he told them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

⁵⁶ Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

⁴ Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: “On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,” ⁵ and again in this passage, “They will never enter my rest.” ⁶ Therefore, since it is still true that some will enter it, and since those who once heard the good news failed to enter it because of their disobedience, ⁷ he again fixes a definite day—“Today”—saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” ⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken later about another day.
⁹ There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God to keep, ¹⁰ because the one who enters God’s rest has himself rested from his own actions, just as God did from his.

⁴ God saw that the light was beautiful. He separated the light from the darkness,

²⁸ God blessed the humans by saying to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!”

¹ From Adam to NoahThis is the historical record of Adam’s generations. When God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness.

¹ Descendants and Nations from NoahThese are the records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom descendants were born after the flood.

¹⁰ Descendants of ShemThese are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

¹² A Summary of Ishmael’s LifeNow this is what happened to Ishmael, whom Sarah’s Egyptian servant Hagar bore for Abraham.

¹⁹ The Births of Esau and JacobThis is the account of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham fathered Isaac.

¹ Esau’s GenealogiesThis is a record of Esau’s genealogy, that is, of Edom.

⁹ This is a record of the family history of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites of Mount Seir.

¹⁶ These are the names of Levi’s sons according to their genealogies: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.

³ The LORD is a man of war, the LORD is his name!

³⁹ When all the people saw what had happened, they fell flat on their faces and cried out “The LORD is God! The LORD is God!”

⁶ and said: “LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven, are you not? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, don’t you? In your own hands you grasp both strength and power, don’t you? As a result, no one can oppose you, can they?

²⁸ “Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the dew?

³¹ The Acts of God for the RighteousFor who is God but the LORD, and who is a Rock other than our God?—

¹⁰ For you are great, and you are doing awesome things; you alone are God.

¹ A prayer by Moses, the godly man
Life is Short Lord, you’ve been our refuge from generation to generation. ² Before the mountains were formed or the earth and the world were brought forth, you are God from eternity to eternity.

⁶ I am the First and the LastThis is what the LORD says, the King of Israel and its Redeemer— the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name— “I am the first and I am the last, and apart from me there is no God.

⁴ From John to the seven churches in Asia. May grace and peace be yours from the one who is, who was, and who is coming, from the seven spirits who are in front of his throne,

⁸ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” declares the Lord God, “the one who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty.”

¹⁷ They said, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to rule.

⁵ Then I heard the angel in charge of the water say, “You are just. You are the one who is and who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things.

¹¹ Then God said, “Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!” And that is what happened: ¹² Vegetation sprouted all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed. And God saw that it was good.

²³ therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken.

² And she did it again, giving birth to his brother Abel. Abel shepherded flocks and Cain became a farmer.

¹² Whenever you work the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you, and you’ll wander throughout the earth as a fugitive.”

¹⁰ He sends rain on the surface of the earth, and waters the surface of the open country.

²⁶ to bring rain upon a land without inhabitants, a desert in which no human beings live, ²⁷ to satisfy a desolate and devastated desert, causing it to sprout vegetation? ²⁸ “Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the dew?

⁹ You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way. ¹⁰ You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed. ¹¹ You crown the year with your goodness; your footsteps drop prosperity behind them.

¹⁴ He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,

⁷ He makes the clouds rise from the ends of the earth, fashioning lightning for the rain, bringing the wind from his storehouses.

²² Can any of the worthless gods of the nations make it rain? Can the heavens themselves bring forth showers? Aren’t you the one who does this, LORD our God? So we hope in you, for you are the one who does all these things.

⁴⁵ so that you will become children of your Father in heaven, because he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.

⁷ For when the ground soaks up rain that often falls on it and continues producing vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated, it receives a blessing from God.

¹⁹ You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you’re buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You’re made from dust and you’ll return to dust.”

²² Everything that breathed and everything that had lived on dry land died.

²² Then they fell on their faces and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will you be angry at the entire congregation on account of one man’s sin?”

¹⁶ “May the LORD God of the spirits of all living creatures appoint a man over the community

¹⁹ how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

³ As long as I can breathe; as long as God’s breath is in my nostrils,

⁴ “The spirit of God fashioned me; and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

⁶ Look! As far as God is concerned, I’m just like you are— I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

³ Acknowledge that the LORD is God. He made us and we belong to him; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

¹⁴ For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

¹⁴ I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it. ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth.

²⁷ A person’s spirit is the lamp of the LORD; it searches throughout one’s innermost being.

⁷ a time to tear, and a time to mend; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;

²⁰ All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.
²¹ Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth?

⁷ then man’s dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

²² “Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they really worth?”

⁸ God, our Father, will ActBut as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

²² When he had said this, he breathed on them and told them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

²⁵ and he isn’t served by people as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else.

²⁰ On the contrary, who are you—mere man that you are—to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, “Why did you make me like this?”

⁴⁵ This, indeed, is what is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁷ The first man came from the dust of the earth; the second man came from heaven.

⁷ But we have this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power comes from God and not from us.

¹ We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

⁹ Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them for it. We should submit even more to the Father of our spirits and live, shouldn’t we?

²⁴ After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life.

¹⁶ After this, Cain left the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

¹⁰ Lot looked around and noticed that the whole Jordan plain as far as Zoar was well-watered like the garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

¹² Did the gods of those nations whom my ancestors destroyed deliver them, including Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and Eden’s descendants in Telassar?

³ For the LORD will have compassion on Zion, have compassion on all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her deserts like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of singing. Sorrow and sighing will flee away.

²³ Haran, Canneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad did business with you,

¹³ You used to be in Eden— God’s paradise! You wore precious stones for clothing: ruby, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and carbuncle. Your settings were crafted in gold, along with your engravings. On the day of your creation they had been prepared!

⁸ The cedars in God’s garden could not compare to it; Fir trees could not match its boughs. The plane tree never grew branches like it, and no tree in God’s garden compares to its beauty. ⁹ I made it beautiful, including all of its branches; all the trees in God’s garden of Eden envied it!’”

¹⁶ I made the nations tremble when they heard that Assyria was falling, descending into Sheol to join those who go down into the Pit. Then all of the trees of Eden in the world below were comforted, including the choicest and best of Lebanon, all of whom were well-watered.

¹⁸ So tell me now, which of the trees of Eden compares to you in glory or greatness? Nevertheless, you’ll be brought down, along with those trees of Eden, to the earth below. You’ll lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who have been killed in war. Pharaoh and all his gang will be just like this!’ declares the Lord GOD.”

³ Joel’s Description of the Approaching Army“A fire blazes in their presence, and behind them a conflagration rages. Before they come, the land is like the garden in Eden; after they leave, there is only a barren wasteland. Indeed, nothing escapes them.

¹⁷ but you are not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because you will certainly die during the day that you eat from it.”

³ “but as for the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You are not to eat from it, nor are you to touch it, or you will die.’”

²² Later, the LORD God said, “Look! The man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so he won’t reach out, also take from the tree of life, eat, and then live forever—”

²⁵ It will be credited as righteousness for us, if we’re careful to obey the entire Law in the presence of the LORD our God, as he commanded.’”

¹⁸ She is a tree of life for those who embrace her, and whoever clutches her tightly will be joyful.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who wins people is wise.

²⁵ who frustrates the omens of idle talkers, and drives diviners mad, who turns back the wise, and makes their knowledge foolish;

¹⁰ Self-Deception of the Babylonians“You trusted in your own knowledge. You said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge have misled you. You said in your heart, ‘I am the one, and there will be none besides me.’

¹² Lining each side of the river banks, all sorts of species of fruit trees will be growing. Their leaves will never wither and their fruit will never fail. They will bear fruit every month, because the water that nourishes them will be flowing from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves will contain substances that promote healing.”

⁴⁸ I’m the bread of life.

¹ Concerning Food Offered to IdolsNow concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

⁷ ‘Let everyone listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give the privilege of eating from the tree of life that is in God’s paradise.’”

² Between the city street and the river, the tree of life was visible from each side. It produced twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

¹⁴ “How blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city!

⁴ Look! There is a river whose streams make the city of God rejoice, even the Holy Place of the Most High.

¹ The Vision of the River of the Water of LifeThen the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal. It was flowing from the throne of God and the lamb.

⁷ Cush’s descendants included Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.
Raamah’s descendants included Sheba and Dedan.

²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan’s descendants.

¹⁸ His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur (that’s near Egypt), all the way to Assyria, in defiance of all of his relatives.

⁷ Saul attacked the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

²⁰ the fourth row beryl, onyx, and jasper, and they are to be set in gold filigree.

¹³ and the fourth row beryl, onyx, and jasper. They were set in gold filigree when they were mounted.

⁷ Now manna was reminiscent of coriander seed, with an appearance similar to amber.

¹⁶ It cannot be compared to gold from Ophir, with precious onyx, or with sapphire.

⁶ Ham’s DescendantsHam’s descendants included Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

¹¹ At that time, the LORD will reach out his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

¹¹ From there he went north to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

²² Shem’s sons included Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

¹⁸ That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: “I’m giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—

⁷ Break camp, get going, and proceed to the hill country of the Amorites and all the nearby places in the Arabah desert, the highlands, the foothills, the Negev, the coastal plains, all of the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon as far as the great river, the Euphrates.

²⁴ Every place upon which the soles of your feet tread will be yours as boundaries—from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, from the Euphrates) to the Mediterranean Sea.

⁴ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was beside the bank of the great Tigris River,

¹⁴ It told the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are held at the great Euphrates River.”

² By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done.

⁸ The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, where he placed the man whom he had formed.

³³ No Secret Sins“Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself?

² You will eat from the work of your hands; you will be happy, and it will go well for you.

²⁸ The thief must no longer steal but must work hard and do what is good with his own hands, so that he might earn something to give to the needy.

⁹ The LORD God caused every tree that is both beautiful and suitable for food to spring up out of the ground. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹ The Temptation and FallNow the Shining One was more clever than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. It asked the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You are not to eat from any tree of the garden’?”
² “We may eat from the trees of the garden,” the woman answered the serpent,

²² Samuel said, “Does the LORD delight as much in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the LORD? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

⁴ For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

¹⁷ Advice for the WealthyTell those who are rich in this age not to be arrogant and not to place their confidence in anything as uncertain as riches. Instead, let them place their confidence in God, who lavishly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

¹ The Temptation and FallNow the Shining One was more clever than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. It asked the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You are not to eat from any tree of the garden’?”
² “We may eat from the trees of the garden,” the woman answered the serpent, ³ “but as for the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You are not to eat from it, nor are you to touch it, or you will die.’”
⁴ “You certainly will not die!” the Shining One told the woman.

¹¹ “Who told you that you are naked?” God asked. “Did you eat fruit from the tree that I commanded you not to eat?”

¹⁷ He told the man, “Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you. You’ll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life.

⁷ Now then, return the man’s wife. As a matter of fact, he’s a prophet and can intercede for you so you’ll live. But if you don’t return her, be aware that you and all who are yours will certainly die.”

⁶⁵ because the LORD had said about them, “They’ll certainly die in the wilderness. No man will survive from them except Jephunneh’s son Caleb and Nun’s son Joshua.”

²⁶ “‘Cursed is the one who doesn’t uphold the words of this Law and observe them.“Then all the people are to respond by saying, ‘Amen!’”

¹⁵ Destruction in Disobedience“Look! Today I have set before you life and what is good, along with death and what is evil.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I’ve set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life, that it may be well with you—you and your children.

³⁹ Indeed, as the LORD who delivers Israel lives, even if the sin is with my son Jonathan, he will surely die!” Not a single one of the soldiers answered him.

⁴⁴ Saul said, “May God do this to me and even more, if you don’t surely die, Jonathan!”

³¹ As long as Jesse’s son lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established! Now send someone and bring David to me. He’s a dead man!”

¹⁶ The king said, “Ahimelech, you will surely die, you and all your father’s family!”

³⁷ If you ever leave and cross the Kidron Brook, you can be sure that you’ll die. You’ll be responsible for your own death.”

⁴² so the king sent for Shimei and asked him, “Didn’t I make a promise to the LORD and warn you, ‘The day you leave and go anywhere else, you can be sure you’ll die’? And you told me, ‘What your majesty has decreed is acceptable to me.’

⁸ As soon as Jeremiah finished saying everything that the LORD had commanded him to say to all the people, the priests, the prophets, and all the people seized him, telling him as they did: “You must certainly die!

¹⁸ “So when I say to a wicked person, ‘You’re about to die,’ if you don’t warn or instruct that wicked person that his behavior is wicked so he can live, that wicked person will die in his sin, but I’ll hold you responsible for his death. ¹⁹ If you warn the wicked person, and he doesn’t repent of his wickedness or of his wicked behavior, he’ll die in his sin, but you will have saved your own life.
²⁰ “When a righteous man abandons his righteousness to practice unrighteousness, I’ll set a stumbling block before him. He’ll die. If you don’t warn him, he’ll die in his sin and the righteous deeds that he had practiced won’t be remembered, but you’ll be held responsible for his death.

⁴ Look! Every living soul belongs to me—the father’s as well as the son’s. So pay attention! The person who keeps on sinning is going to die.”

¹³ loans with usury, and exacts interest; will he live? He certainly will not! He has done all these detestable practices. He will certainly die, and his guilt will be his own fault.”

³² I don’t take pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the LORD. “So repent, so you may live!”

⁸ If I should say to a certain wicked person, ‘You wicked man, you’re certainly about to die,’ but you don’t warn him to turn from his wicked behavior, he’ll die in his guilt, but I’ll seek retribution for his bloodshed from you.

¹⁴ “If I tell the wicked person that he will certainly die, if he turns from his sin and acts with justice and righteousness,

³² Although they know God’s just requirement—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

¹² Death in Adam, Life in the MessiahJust as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned. ¹³ Certainly sin was in the world before the Law was given, but no record of sin is kept when there is no Law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death ruled from the time of Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same way Adam did when he disobeyed. He is a foreshadowing of the one who would come.
¹⁵ But God’s free gift is not like Adam’s offense. For if many people died as the result of one man’s offense, how much more have God’s grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people! ¹⁶ Nor can the free gift be compared to what came through the man who sinned. For the sentence that followed one man’s offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift brought justification, even after many offenses. ¹⁷ For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man’s offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus the Messiah!
¹⁸ Consequently, just as one offense resulted in condemnation for everyone, so one act of righteousness results in justification and life for everyone. ¹⁹ For just as through one man’s disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man’s obedience many people will be made righteous. ²⁰ Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more, ²¹ so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Jesus our Lord.

¹⁰ and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death. ¹¹ For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me. ¹² So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good.
¹³ The Problem of the Sin that Lives in UsNow, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

² For the Spirit’s law of life in the Messiah Jesus has set me free from the Law of sin and death.

²² For as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah will all be made alive.

⁵⁶ Now death’s stinger is sin, and sin’s power is the Law.

¹⁰ No One is Justified by the LawCertainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, “A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!”

¹ God Has Brought Us from Death to LifeYou used to be dead because of your offenses and sins ² that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient. ³ Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love for us ⁵ even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with the Messiah (by grace you have been saved), ⁶ raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly realm in the Messiah Jesus,

¹⁴ for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, “Wake up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.’’

¹³ Even when you were dead because of your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with him when he forgave us all of our offenses,

⁶ But the self-indulgent widow is just as good as dead.

¹⁵ When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

¹⁶ If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray that God would give him life. This applies to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not telling you to pray about that.

¹¹ ‘Let everyone listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be hurt by the second death.’”

⁶ How blessed and holy are those who participate in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them. They will be priests of God and the Messiah, and will rule with him for a thousand years.

¹⁴ Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. (This is the second death—the lake of fire.)

⁸ But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

¹² The man answered, “The woman whom you provided for me gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate some of it.”

¹ Naomi Offers to Find a Husband for RuthRuth’s mother-in-law Naomi, told her, “My daughter, should I not make inquiries about your financial security, so you’ll be better off in life?

²² Whoever finds a wife finds what is good, and receives favor from the LORD.

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. ¹⁰ If they stumble, the first will lift up his friend—but woe to anyone who is alone when he falls and there is no one to help him get up. ¹¹ Again, if two lie close together, they will keep warm, but how can only one stay warm? ¹² If someone attacks one of them, the two of them together will resist. Furthermore, the tri-braided cord is not soon broken.

³⁶ If a man thinks he is not behaving properly toward his virgin, and if his passion is so strong that he feels he ought to marry her, let him do what he wants; he isn’t sinning. Let them get married.

⁷ A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God’s image and glory. But the woman is man’s glory. ⁸ For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; ⁹ and man was not created for woman, but woman for man. ¹⁰ This is why a woman should have authority over her own head: because of the angels.
¹¹ In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man of woman. ¹² For as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But everything comes from God.

¹¹ Let a woman learn with a quiet spirit, and submissively. ¹² Moreover, in the area of teaching, I am not allowing a woman to instigate conflict toward a man. Instead, she is to remain calm. ¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve,

⁷ In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate partner. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers.

²⁰ Then God said, “Let the oceans swarm with living creatures, and let flying creatures soar above the earth throughout the sky!” ²¹ So God created every kind of magnificent marine creature, every kind of living marine crawler with which the waters swarmed, and every kind of flying creature. And God saw how good it was. ²² God blessed them by saying, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the oceans. Let the birds multiply throughout the earth!” ²³ The twilight and the dawn were the fifth day.
²⁴ Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature, each kind of livestock and crawling thing, and each kind of earth’s animals!” And that is what happened: ²⁵ God made each kind of the earth’s animals, along with every kind of livestock and crawling thing. And God saw how good it was.
²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!”

²² Then the LORD God formed the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ So the man exclaimed, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one will be called ‘Woman,’ because she was taken from Man.”

²⁰ From birds according to their species, from domestic animals according to their species, and from everything that crawls on the ground according to their species—two of everything will come to you so they may remain alive.

² All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They’ve been assigned to live under your dominion.

⁴ what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him? ⁵ You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor. ⁶ You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet: ⁷ Sheep and cattle—all of them, wild creatures of the field, ⁸ birds in the sky, fish in the sea— whatever moves through the currents of the oceans.

¹⁸ The Creation of the WomanLater, the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him.”

¹² As the sun began to set, Abram was overcome with deep sleep, and suddenly a frightening and terrifying darkness descended on him.

¹² So David took the spear and the jug of water at Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw, and no one knew, because no one was awake. They were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen over them.

¹³ Disquieting thoughts from dreams at night; when deep sleep falls on everyone.

¹⁵ in a dream or night vision, when a deep sleep falls on mankind while they sleep on their beds.

¹⁵ Laziness puts one to sleep, and an idle person will go hungry.

¹⁸ “While he had been speaking with me, I had fainted on my face, but he touched me and enabled me to stand upright on my feet.

¹⁹ After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.

¹ A Solomonic Song of Ascents
God’s Blessing in the Family Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor uselessly. Unless the LORD guards the city, its security forces keep watch uselessly.

¹⁴ A house and self-sufficiency are a father’s inheritance, but from the LORD comes an insightful wife.

⁸ For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; ⁹ and man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve,

⁴ Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.

¹⁴ Laban responded, “You certainly are my flesh and blood!” So Jacob stayed with him for about a month.

² “Ask all the “lords” of Shechem, ‘What’s better for you? That 70 men, each of them Jerubbaal’s sons, rule over you? Or that one man rule over you?’ Keep in mind that I’m like your own close relative.”

¹ David Becomes King over Israel
After this, all of the tribes of Israel assembled with David at Hebron and declared, “Look, we’re your own flesh and blood!

¹³ Then ask Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my own flesh and blood? So may God deal with me, no matter how severely, if from this day forward you don’t take Joab’s place as commander of my army.’

²⁸ In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church.
³⁰ For we are parts of his body—of his flesh and of his bones.

⁵⁸ So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?”
“I will go,” she replied.
⁵⁹ So they sent off their sister Rebekah, along with her personal assistant, Abraham’s servant, and his men.

¹⁴ Rachel and Leah Consent to LeaveThen Rachel and Leah asked him, “Do we have anything left of inheritance remaining in our father’s house? ¹⁵ He’s treating us like foreigners. He sold us and spent all of the money that rightfully belonged to us.

¹² If a priest’s daughter marries a resident alien, she is not to eat the sacred raised offerings. ¹³ If the priest’s daughter is a widow, or is divorced and childless, so that she has to return to her father’s house as in her younger days, she may eat her father’s food, but no resident alien may eat it.

⁴ But all of you who are clinging to the LORD your God are alive today.

²⁰ You are to fear the LORD your God and serve him. Cling to him and swear by his name.

⁸ Instead, you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done today,

¹⁰ Listen, daughter! Consider and pay attention. Forget your people and your father’s house,

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but a wife who puts him to shame is like bone cancer.

¹⁰ The Honorable WomanWho can find a capable wife? Her value far exceeds the finest jewels.

¹⁴ Yet you ask, ‘For what reason?’ Because the LORD acts as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you were unfaithful to her, your partner, the wife of your covenant. ¹⁵ Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don’t be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
¹⁶ “Indeed, the LORD God of Israel says that he hates divorce, along with the one who conceals his violence by outward appearances,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. “So guard yourselves carefully, and don’t be unfaithful.”

³ Some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
⁴ He answered them, “Haven’t you read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female’ ⁵ and said, ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate.”
⁷ They asked him, “Why, then, did Moses order us ‘to give a certificate of divorce and divorce her’?”
⁸ He told them, “It was because of your hardness of heart that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not this way. ⁹ I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

⁶ But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ⁷ That’s why ‘a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, ⁸ and the two will become one flesh.’ So they’re no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate.”
¹⁰ Back in the house, the disciples asked him about this again. ¹¹ So he told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. ¹² And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

²³ When he arrived, he rejoiced to see what the grace of God had done, and with hearty determination he kept encouraging all of them to remain faithful to the Lord,

² For a married woman is bound by the Law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband.

¹⁶ You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don’t you? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

² Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.
³ A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should do the same for her husband. ⁴ A wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but his wife does.

¹⁰ To married people I give this command (not really I, but the Lord): A wife must not leave her husband. ¹¹ But if she does leave him, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. Likewise, a husband must not abandon his wife.

²⁸ In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church.
³⁰ For we are parts of his body—of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ “That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

¹⁴ Therefore, I want younger widows to remarry, have children, manage their homes, and not give the enemy any chance to ridicule them.

¹ Wives and HusbandsIn a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives ² when they see your pure and reverent lives.
³ Your beauty should not be an external one, consisting of braided hair or the wearing of gold ornaments and dresses. ⁴ Instead, it should be the inner disposition of the heart, consisting in the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which God values greatly. ⁵ After all, this is how holy women who set their hope on God used to make themselves beautiful in the past. They submitted themselves to their husbands, ⁶ just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters by doing good and by not letting anything terrify you.
⁷ In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate partner. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers.

⁷ As a result, they both understood what they had done, and they became aware that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

¹⁰ “I heard your voice in the garden,” the man answered, “and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid from you.”
¹¹ “Who told you that you are naked?” God asked. “Did you eat fruit from the tree that I commanded you not to eat?”

²⁵ The Descendants of Levi Punish the Guilty IsraelisWhen Moses saw that the people were out of control—since Aaron had let them get out of control, something that incited ridicule from their enemies—

³ Indeed, no one who waits on you will be ashamed, but those who offend for no reason will be put to shame.

¹⁷ Let me not be ashamed, LORD, for I have called upon you. Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in the next life.

⁹ A Rebuke to Idol WorshipNow, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.

³ Your nakedness will be exposed, and your disgrace will also be seen. I’ll take vengeance, and I will spare no mortal.

⁴ “Don’t be afraid, because you won’t be ashamed; don’t fear shame, for you won’t be humiliated— because you will forget the disgrace of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

¹⁵ Were they ashamed because they did what was repugnant to God? They were not ashamed at all— they don’t even know how to blush! Therefore they’ll fall with those who fall. When I punish them, they’ll be brought down,” says the LORD.

¹³ LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn aside from you will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water.

⁶¹ Then you’ll remember your behavior and be ashamed when you greet your sisters—your elder sister and your younger sister. I’ll give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

²⁶ You will have plenty to eat, and will be fully satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has performed wonders specifically for you. And my people will never be ashamed.

³⁸ If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father’s glory.”

²⁶ If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels.

¹¹ The Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will never be ashamed.”